Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former assembly chairman Joseph F. McDonough '81 said yesterday attendance at assembly meetings last semester became a critical problem for the assembly, preventing--as it did last night--official votes on any matter due to a lack of quorum...
...hostage issue. One would authorize arbitration of disputes involving Iranian assets in the U.S. The other would nationalize all assets of the late Shah, thus making Iran's claims to his property more legally defensible. But when the Majlis met to consider the two bills, a required quorum of the twelve-man Council of Guardians, a group of six clerics and six laymen who determine whether the parliament's actions conform to Islamic law, was not present. American diplomats feared that Iran's hard-line clerics had boycotted the session to block any agreement...
...himself, neglected to reckon with the ingenuity of Iran's diehards ?left-leaning Muslims and mullahs who opposed any compromise whatsoever with "the Great Satan America." On Thursday, the day set for the Majlis debate, about 70 deputies stayed home or refused to take their seats, preventing a quorum and thus blocking a vote...
...from all corners of the University, from the Med School, the B-School, the Law School, the Dental School, and from all corners of the earth: Malaysai, Holland, England, U.S.A., West Germany, Hong Kong, Pakistan, India, and Ghana. How many of you ever had an expos class with a quorum like that? (This is what it's all about...
...many delegates do not attend meetings. Voter turnouts have varied during the last three years, but in several Houses they have consistently been under 50 per cent. In its four meetings this year, the assembly has never reached 75 per cent of full attendance. The presence of a quorum--50 per cent--has been doubtful more often than not. At least one-third of the delegates have not yet fulfilled their obligation to join a committee...